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KEY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN* DIVINE'S SUX DAY SERMON. Subject of Discourse: "Pillars of Smoke." Text: "Who is this (hat cometk out of the wilderness like pillilrs of smoke?''?Solemon's Song, iii., 6. The architecture of the smoke is woedrous, whether God with His finger curls it into a cloud,or rounds it into a dome,or points it in aspire, or spreads it in a wing; or, as in the text, hoists it in a pillar. Watch it winding up from the country farmhouse in the eariy morning, showing that the pastoral industries have begun; or see it ascending from the chimneys of the city, telling of the homes fed, the factories turning out valuable fabbric, the printing-presses preparing book and uewspaper, and all the ten thousand wheels of work in motion. On a clear day this vapor spoken of mounts with such buoyancy, and spreads such a delicate veil cross the sky, and traces such graceful lines of circle, semi-circle and wave, and tosses, and sinks, and soars, and scatters with such affluence of shape, and color, and suggestivene?s. that if you have never noticed it you are liKe a man wdu uius un uj& me ikcu n Paris and vet never seen the Luxembourg,or all bis life in Rome and never seeu the \ atican, or all his life at Lockport and never seen Niagara Forty-four times the Bible speaks of the smoke, and it is about time that somebody preaches a sermon recognizing this strange, weird, beautiful, elastic, charming, terrific and fascinating vapor. Across the Bible sky floats the smoke of Sinai, the smoke of Sodom, the smoke of Ai, the smoke of the pit, the smoke of the vol.ante bills when God touches them, and iu my text the glorious Church of God coming up out of the wilderlike pillars of smoke. In the first place, these pillars of smoke in my text indicate the suffering the Church of God has endured. What do I mean by the Church? I mean not a building, not a sect, but those who in all ages and all lands, and of all beliefs, love God and are trying ta do right. Fcr many centuries the heavens have been black with the smoke of martyrdom. If set siie by sido you could girdle the earth with the fires of persecution. Rowland Taylor burned at Hadleigh; Latimer burned at Oxford: John Rogers burned at Smithfield; John Hooper burned at Gloucester; John Huss burned at Constauce; Laurence Saunders burned at Coventry: Jcau of Arc burned at Rouen: Protectants have sometimes pointed to the Catholics as having a monopoly of persecutors; but both Protestant and Catholic have practiced infamous cruelties. The Catholics during the reign of Hunneric were by Protestants put to the worst tortures, stripped of their clothing, hoisted in the air by pullevs With weights suspended from their feet, then let down, and ears and eyes, nose and tcngue were amputated, and red-hot plates of iron were put against the tenderest part of their bodies. George Bancroft, the historiau, says of the State of Maryland: ' 'In the land which Catholics had opened to Protestants mass might Dot be said publicly: no Catholic priest or bishop might utter his faith in a voice of persuasion; no Catholic might teach the young. If a wayward child ef a Papist would but becorr.? an apostate, the law wrested for him from his parents a share of their property. Such were the methods adopted to prevent th9 growth of Popery." Speaking of Ireland, Bancroft, the historian, says: "Such priests as were permitted to reside in Ireland were required to be registered, and were kept like prisoners at large within prescribed limits. All Papists exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction, all monks, friars and regular priests, and all priests not then actually in parishes and to be resist -red were banished from Ireland under rain of transportation, and, on return, of being hanged, drawn snd quartered." Catholicism as well as Protestantism has had its martyrs. It doe; seem as if when any one sect got complete domiuancy in any land the devil of persecution and cruelty took possession of that s-?ct. Theu see the Catholics after the Hugenota. See the Gentile? after the Jews in T< uiai'no, where a great pit was dug and fire lighted at the bottom of the pit, and 160 Jewish victims were conmimed. See the Presbyterian Parliament of England, more tyrannical in their treatment of opponents than bad vtxm IUC uiuiiiMti tuui ^ iciacvuuuu against the Bantists by Pedo-Baptist=. Persecution of the Established Church against the Methodist Church. Persecution against the Quakers. Persecution against the Presbyterians. Under Emperor Diocletian one hundred and forty-four thousand Christians were massacred, and Feven hundred thousand more of them died from banishment and exposure. Witness the sufferings of the Waldenses, of the Albigens?s, of the Nestorians. Witness St. Bartholomew's massacre. Witness the Duke of Alva driving out of life eighteen thou6aud Christians. Witness Herod, and Nero, and Decius, and Hildebrand, and Torquemada, and Earl of Montfort, and Lord Claverhouse. who, when told that he must pve account for his cruelties said: "I have no need to account to man, and as for God I will take Him in my own hands." A red line runs through the church history of nineteen hundred years, a line of blood. Not by the hundreds of thousands, but by the millions, must we count those slain for Christ's sake. No wonder John Milton put the jrrrans of the martyrs to an immortal tune, writing: "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints whose bones Lie s-attered on the Alpine mountains cold" The smoke of martyrs' homes and martyrs' bodies, if rolling up all at once, would have eclipsed the nooudav sun and turned the brightest dav the world ever saw into a midnight. " Whr> is thi> that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smokef His persecution ceased ? Ask that young man who is trying to be a Christian in a store ui lav. wi j , w Li\j is Mid uutouL ait iuo rnrau witticisims of unVelievins employes. Ask that wife whose huslv?nd makes her fondness for the house of God and even her kneeling prayer by th* bedside a derision, and is no more fit for lier holy comranioship than a filthy crow would be fit companion for a robin or a golden oriole. Comprom so with the world and surrender to its conventionalities and it may let you alone, but all who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. Be a theatre-going, card-plfvylng. wine drinking,round dancing Christian, and you may escape criti -ism and social pressure. But be an up and down, out and out follower of Christ, and worlding will wink to worlding as he speaks your name, and you will ba put in many a doggerel and snubbed by those not worthy to blacken your oldest shoes. When the bridge nt Ashtabula broke and let down the mo<t of the carload of passengers to instant death. Mr. P. P. Bliss was seated on one side of the aisle of the car writing down a Christian song which he was composing, and on the other side a group of men were playing cards. Whose landingplace in eternity would you prefer--that of 'P. P. Bliss, the Gospel singer, or of the card players? The great complaint comes from the theatres ab iut the ladies' high hats, because they obstruct the view of the stage, and a lady reporter askod me tho other day what I tnougQC anout lr, ana 1 toia ner mac 11 me indecent pictures of actresses in the show windows of Brooklyn and New York were accurate pictures of what goes on in many of the theatres night by night, then it would be well if the ladies' hats were a mile high, so as to completely obstruct the vision. If professed Christians go to such places during the week, no one will ever persecute them for their religion, for they have none and they are the joke of hell But let them lire a consecrated and Christian life and they will soon run against sneering oppo? sition. For a compromise Christian character an ea>y time now, but for consecrated behavior, griniaco and caricature. For the body, thanks to the God of free America, t here are no swords or fierv stakes, but for the souls of thousands of the good, in a figurative sense, rack, and glbhet, anrl Torquemada. The symbol of the dome-tic aud social and private and public suffering " ' of a great multitude of God's dear children, pillars of smoke. What an exciting scene in India when during the Sepoy rebellion a regiment of Highlanders came un ami found the dead body of one of General Wheeler's daughters, who kad been insulted and mauled and slain by ?tttoc flia \rrotli n rrninict". mo OUJA'^N ^IC?W f??o vuv .? > these murderers that the Scotch regiment tat down, and cutting off the hair of this dead daughter of General Wheeler, they divided it among them, ami each one counted the number of hairs given him, and each took an oath, which was executed, that for each hair of the murdered daughter they would dash out the life of a miserable Sepoy. But as we look over the story of those who in all ages have ! offered for the troth, while we leave veil gearce to the Lord, ltV us Dana tocoiDer m ! on? solemn vow. one tremendous oath, after | having counted the hoist of the martvrs, that for each one of those glorious men and women who died for the truth, nn immortal I soul shall live, live with God and live fori ever. But. as I already hinted in the first sentence of this sermon, nothing can be more i beautiful than the fijrurtsof smoke on a clGar | sky. You ran see what you will in the contour of this volatile vapor, now enchanted ! castles, now troops of horsemen, now banj nered procession, now winired couriers, now I a black anjjel of wrath under a spear of the | sunshine turned to an ancel of li^ht, and j now from horizon to horizon the air is a I picture gallery filled with masterpieces of | which God is "the artist, morning clouds of | imoke born in the sunrise, and evening ! clouds of smoke laid in the burnished sepulI ehres of the sunset. | The beauty of the transfieurod sm^ke is a ! divine symbol of the beauty of the Church. I The fairest of all the fair is she. Do uqt call those persecutors of whom I spoke the ! Church. They are the parasites of the i Church, not the Church itself. Her mission is to cover the earth with a supernatural gladness. to open all the prison doors, to baham all the wounds, to nios? nil the graves, j to burn up the night in the firepiaceof a great I morning, to change iron handcufis into diaj monded wristlets, to turn the whole* race around, and whereas it fared doath, com| manning it: "Rightabout face for heaven!" | According to the number of the soires of the churches in all our cities, towns.and neish' borhoods. aro *ne erood homes, tlio worldly I prosperities, and the pure morals, and the nappy souls. Meet me at any denot the world over, and with my eyes closed take me by the hand and lead me so that my foat will not stumble, and without my once looking down, or looking on the level, take me to some liisrh roof or tower and let me see the tops of the churches, and I will tell you the proportion of suicides, of arsons, of murders, of thefts. According as the churches are numerous aro the crimes few. According as the churches are few the crimes are numerous. The most beautiful organization the world over saw or ever will see is the much-maligned Church, the friend of all good, the foe of all evil, "fair as the moon and clear as the sun." Beautiful in her author, beautiful in her mission, the | heroine of tho centuries, the bride of Christ, the queen of the nations. There are hundreds of kindly institutions, some carina for inebriates, some for the crippled, some for the imbecile, some for ~ the mi-led, some for the blind, but the Church is the mother of all these kindly institutions, rhere are asylums, American, or English, or Scotch, or Irish, or French, or Germany, or Italian, but the Church spreads her mantle over all these, and will yet spread it over all nations. Her gates * are beautiful, her songs are beautiful, her prayers are beautiful, her convocations nre beautiful, her work is beautiful. All Jvin-'S and warriors will yet bow down at her altars, all chains of serfdom be shattered against her doorstep, all nations will yet fellow her leading. How amiable are thy tabernacles! How sacred thy altars! How glorious thy auditoriums! So graceful, so aspiring, so grand, and rolling on, and rolling up, we cry out in rezard to her: " Who is she that rometh out of the wilderness like pillar* of smoke?" Men may desecrate it, as Cromws!! when he stabled his cavalry horses in St. Paul's Cathedral; or break off the Ima^e ot Christ, as did the iconoclasts in York Minuter; or hurl against it august literary antipathies,as did Gibbon; or plot its overthrow, as dosome in every community whose pride and hate and debauchery are reproved by the Ten Commandments which it thunders, and the Sermon on the Mount which it breathes. But it will stand as long as the earth stands, the same unique, and wonder-working, beatific, and miraculous thing for which God decreed it Small wits tax their brain to say things that will put her at disadvantage, but many of them will send for its condolence when dying, and their children will be gathered up under its benedictions after the parental curse has been removed. Through her gates will march all tte influences for good that shall ever reach our world. Take her | membership as a mas?, not speaking of the acknowledged exceptions, they are the noblest., grandest, kindest,best men and women of the ages But for tbem the earth would long ago have beon a burned-out volcano. They have been the salt that has kept the human race from putrefaction insufferable either to human or angelic olfactories. You lying and hypocritical world, shut up those slanders about the Church of Christ, an institution whi-h, far from being what it ought to be and never pretending to be perfect, is five hundred times better than any other institution that tho world ever saw or ever dreamt of. The highest honor I ever had, and the highest hon<r I shall ever receive, and the highest honor I ever want is to have my name on her records as a member. At her altars I repented. At her sacraments I believed. In her service let me die. From her doors let me be buried. Oh, Church of God! Thou home of the righteous! Thou harbor from tempest! Thou refuge for the weary! Thou lighthouse of many nations! Thou tyi e of heaven! I could kiss thy very dust with ecstasy of affection. "For her my tears shall fall, For her my prayers ascend, To her my toils and cares be given Till toils and cares shall end." "Perfume*1 smoke," says Solomon, in the words following my text. Not like the fumes coughed up from the throat of a steam-pipe, or poisoned with the gases of chemical factonv flrmtintr in hlnok wrath from the con flagration of bome-teads, or sulphurous from blazing batteries, but sweet as a burning grove of cinDamon or jungle of sassafras, j or the odors of a temple oenser. "Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense? " Hear it, men and women everywhere. that the advance of the genuine Churc h of Christ means peace for all nations. Victor Hugo, in his bojk entitle ! "Ninetythree," says: "Nothing calmer than smote but nothing more startling. There are peaceful smokes and there are evil ones. The thickness and color of a line of smoke make the whole difference between war and peace, between fraternity and hatred. The whole happiness of man or his complete misery is sometimes expressed iu this thin vapor which the win I scatters at will." The great Frenchman was right, but I go further nnd say that a?the Kingdom of God advances like pillars of smoke, the black volumes belching from batteries of war and pouring out from portholes of ships will vanish from the sky. A distinguished General of the late war told me recently that Abraham Lincoln proposed to avoid our civil conflict by purchase of all the slaves of the South and setting them free. Ho calculated what would be a reasonable price for them, and, when the num' ber of millions of dollars that would be required for such a purpose was annouueed, the proposition was scouted, and the North would not have made the oft'er and the South would not have accepted it if made. "But," said my military friend, "the war went on and just the number of millions of dollars that Mr. Lincoln calculated would have been enough to make a reasonable purchase of all the slaves, were soent in war. besides all the precious lives that were hurled away in the two hundred and fifty battle?." In other words, there ought to be s-omo other way for men to set| tie their controversies without wholesale ; batchery. j me cnuren or uoa win yet occome tne j arbiter of nations. If the world would allow I it. it could to-day step in between Germany j and France and settle the trouble about Al- i i sace and Lorraine, and between Russia and" l Bulgaria, and between England and her anj tagonists, and between all the other nations j that are Hying at each other's throats, and I command peaoo and disband armies, and harness for the plow the war j borsoi now being hit bed to ammunition I wagons, or saddled for cavalry charge, i That time must come, or, through the increased facility for shooting inen and blowing up cities and whelming ho-.ts to instant d'.-uth, so that we can kill a regiment easier than we could on e kill a company, and kill a brigade easier than we could once kill a ; regiment, the patent oflices of the world j more busy than over in recognizing new ; tu^uivi y wa uvnu uvuuu, LI1W Ullinaii j race'will, after awhile, go fighting with | one arm. and hobbling with one foot, and I stumbling along with one eye, and some in| genious inventor iuspired of the archangel ! of all mischief, will contrive a ma'hinu that j will bore a hole to the earth's center, and | some desperate nation will throw into that j hole enough dynamite to blow this hulk of a ! planet into fragments, dropping like moi teoric stoues on surrounding stellar habitaj tions. But this shall not be, for whatever else I let go, I hansj on to my Bible, which tells me that the blacksmith's shop shall yet oome i to its grainiest use when the warrior and the | husbandman shall enter it side by side, and ; the soldier shull throw into its bank of fires i his sword, and the farmer shall pick it ; up a ploughshare, and the. straightesfc spear shall be bent into a crook at eai'li end, and then cut in two. and what was one spear sha'l be two pruning hnoks. Down with Molo h and up with Christ! Left no more war-horses eat out of the manger where Jesus was horn. Peace! Forever roll off the skv the black pillars of smoke from the Marengos and fcalamnntas ana iioroainos ana ?'eitysourgs of onrtb! And right after them, roll into the heavens tlio peaceful vapors from the chimneys of farmhouses, and asylums, and churches, and capitals of Christian nations, and. as the sunlight strike? through these vapors they will write in letters of jet and gold all over the sky from horizon to zenith: "Glory to God in the highest,and on earth peace, good will to men!" Then let all the men-of-war fire a broadside, and all the forts thunder forth a resounding volley, and the earth bo girdled with the cannonade over the final victory of the truth. While thinking of the^e things I looked out from my window, and the wind was violently blowing. And I saw from many chimneys the smoke tossed in the air and whirled in great velocity, volume after volume, fold after fold, and carried on the swift wind were the great pillars of smoke. And helned by Solomon in the text I saw the speed of the church symbolized. Do you realize the momentum the Church of God is under? Why, the smoke of a chimney on the top of M 'lint Washinelon when the wind is blowing sixty miles the hour, Is slow as compared with the celerity of good influences. For fifty-nine centuries the devil had it his own way among the nations. Nearly all the great missionary movements have been started witfciin the century, and see what one century has done to recover the world from fifty-nine centuries of devastation. What great revivals! What mighty churches) What saved millions! What advancing civilization! In all the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy fall freedom to worship i?oa according to conS'iouee. Along the coasts of China, Japan and Africa the batteries are planted which are to take all these empires for God and civilization. Prom the ruins of Babylon and Assyria, and Nineveh and the valleys of tho Nile, confirmations have been exhumed proving to all fair-minded men that the Binle is the truest book ever written. The mythologies of Egypt were found to have embodied m them the knowledge of man's expulsion from Paradise, artd the sacrifice of a great emancipator. Moses's account'of the creation, .corroborated by the hammer of Christian geologists; the oldest profane writers like Hiromus, Helanicu?, and Berosus confirming the Bible account of ancient longevity; Tacitus and Pliny confirming the Bible account of destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; Tacitus and Porphyry telling the same story of Christ as Matthew and Luke told: Macrobius telling of the massacre of children in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketching the darkness at the crucifixion. It is demonstrated to all honest men that it is not so certain that William Cullen Byrant wrote Thanitopsis or Longfelloy wrote Hiawatha, as that God by the hand of prophet and apostki wrote the Bible. All the wise men in science and law and medicine and literature and merchandise are gradually coming to believe in Christianity, and soon their will be no people who disbelieve in it except those conspicuous for lack of brain or men with two families who do not like the Bible because it rebukes their swinish propen?ities. The time is hastening when there will be no infidels left except libertines and harlots, and murderers. Millions of Christians where once there were thousands, and thousands where once there were hundreds. What a bright evening this, the evening of the nineteenth century; and the twentieth century, which will dawn in thirteen years from now, will, in my opinion, bring universal victory for Christ and the Church, that now is marching on with step double-quick, or,'if you prefer the figure of M1U WAl, IS KSClUfa o wrujJU VU AU VUO miguvj gales of blessing, imposing and grand end majestic and swift, like pillars of smoke. "Oh, come into the Church through Christ the floor, a door more glorious than that of the Temple of Hercules, which had two pillars,and one was gold and the other emerald I Come in to-day! Come in and be one of the eternal victors! The world you leave behind is a poor world, and it will burn and pass off like pillars of smoke. Whether the final conflagration will start in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, which, in some places, have for many years been burning and eating into the heart of the mountains: or whether it shall begin near the California eeysers, or whether from out the furnaces of Cotopaxf and Vesuvius and Stromboli, it shall burst forth upon the astonished nations. I make no prophecy, but all geologists tell us that we stand on the lid of a world the heart of which is a raging flame, and after a while the probability is that these red monsters will burst out of their imprisonment of centuries, and it will be a blaze that will be seen in other worlds. But after a while these flames will begin to expire and they will go down, and the round globe will be a living coal, and after that the living coal will take on an ashen hue. Then it will begin to smoke, and the mountains will smoke, and the valleys will smoke, and the islands will smoke, and the sea3 will smoke* and_ the five continent^ will be five. ptTlars or smoite, ana then these columns of vapor all begin to lose their density, and the\* will lessen, a id they can hardly bs seen now as from the sky galleries the inhabitants of other worlds watch them. Finallv th?"* wil' lw> onh' on? cnrliaB vapor of smoke. Then that will vanish, ( and there will be nothing left , but the charred hulk of a burned out world, the comse of a dead star, the ashes of an ex- 1 tinguished planer, a fallen pillar of smoke. But that will not hurt any of your invest- i nients if vou have made the Lord your por tion. From your heavenly home" you can look down upon a dismantled, disrupted and demolished earth without any perturbation. When wrapped in fire the realms of ethei Clow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the earth below, Thou undismayed shalt o'er the ruins smile. And lijht thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. At Washington, a few days ago, there was a sale of articles -which had accumulated in the Dead Letter Office during the last year. There were some 25,000 miscellaneous articles. The following are specimens: Women's cheap hosiery, garters, corsets, chemises, bustles, underskirts, 6lioulder-braces, men's underwear, cotton hose, suspenders, collar buttons, soiled linen, damaged hose and damaged shoes. Smoking and plug tobacco and cotton hose are frequently in the same package. No. 164 contains a cheap revolver, plug tobacco, and a cheap watch. Another . ] o.nntains t.wo nairn women's cotton I hose, pair infant's socks, and soma sheet wax. Steel pens, rosaries, razors, some of them badly damaged, galvanic girdles, mirrors, sewing-machine nee- \ dies, playing-cards, cigars, cigarettes, J a rope halter, soap, women's backcombs, doll-corsets, egg-beaters, can- , openers, dentophones, ear-muffs, elec- j trie batteries, cheese-trier, abdominal ] supporters, gold leaf, dark lanterns, 1 sugar spoons, a crucifix, a seersucker ; suit, oil-paintings, music, boys' boots, ] women's shoes, Easter eggs, toys, j games, damaged pants, marbles, men's i slippers (seven and a half), six small 1 sewing machines, plumbers' pipe-cut- ] tor, Indian moccasins, man's damage*' 'j felt hat, auger-bits, tooth- brusnes, < bayonets, man's old frock coat, Turkish-bath towels, violin strings, towel- 1 racks, shoemaker's edge-plane, harmonicas, dentist's forceps, duck calls, \ fifes, roller-skates, undertakers' em- * balming needles, bow and arrows, pipes, artificial eyes, fish-hooks, demijohn, clinical thermometer, flour-sift- j ers, and iron and metal castings. < < ] Thompson H. Muncn, the stonecut- ] ter -who surprised everybody by defeat- < ing Etigene Hale for Congress in 1879, 3 died recently in the insane asylum at : ( Dan vera, Mass. He -was 48 years old, < and belonged to the large clasB of men who "cannot stand prosperity." , The Moonshiner's Ancestors. j Rude in speech, figure aDd habit; j barely lettered, though rarely entirely ; unlettered; cunning, bold, determined I and reckless of life, he is apart from the men of any of the people who dwell on the plains on either side of his mountain range, and ha< a code of manners, customs and morals that is unknown to tho outer world. The origin of the mountaineers that inhabit tho ranges from Virginia to Arkansas is a subject that might tempt the curosity of a serious, historian. Tho ve>tiges of the early population, and of some of the singular episodic inroads that accompanied the steady How of English coloni/.ation, are still plainly perceptible. From the seraiducal plantations of the king's favorites in Virgin a and the Carolinas many of those unfortunate or criminal wretches who were transported from the mother country to be penal slaves in the fields of heartless and mostly absentee masters escaped into tho refuge of the mountains, and, animated by a despairing hope of freedom, sought the most inaccessible hiding places. To the cscaped convict, trembling under the remembrance o.f a master's lash, and willing to dare ?.ny native dan?cr to escape the slavery he ViiiH fori thnnimroiich of Anotherrefujrec was as full of terror as of comfort. The runaway felon could trust nobody; or perhaps he had a brand upjn his forehead to hide from curious eyes, and wherever he made his home it was kopt remote from neighborship, and made as uninviting as possible to adventurous or suspicious eyes. There is little doubt that nmong the first settlers of the mountains were these British convicts sold into slavery to the American plantations, and condemned to a life of laborious servitude, which they only escaped by snch hardships as could tempt no free man. The free pioneer and the woodsman pushed on across the mouutains or through the passes and cleared for himself an empire and garden in fertile Kentucky and middle Tennessee, or sought the softer air and cotton lands of the Southern States. The escaped convict was afraid to venture in either direction, lest he should rush into the hands of a former master or overseer, who would identify and re-enslave him. So, with that last instinct for personal freedom that has always possessed the Caucasian race in every land, he clung to the mountains of his refuge, secure in his solitude, and getting his pacc in the impregnability of his retreat.?Southern JJlli/lIUC* The Freedman's Savings Bank. The Inter- Occan gives the following history of the Freedman's Savings Bank: The Freedman's 1'ank was proposed as a purely charitable enterprise to encourage frugality and thrift among tho newly liDerated blacks. Mr. Summer reported the chartering the bank, 1 ebruary 17, 186"), and on tbc 3d of March, following, it became a law. The bank was established in Washington, and bran.h banks to the number of thirty-four were (afterward) located in different parts of the Union. The institution was authorized to receive the deposits of negroes, and invest the same in the stocks, bonds, Treasury notes, or other securities of the United States. It was not iutended to be a money-making conce.n, either for bankers or depositors, but to provide for the lafe-keeping of the t reedman's savings. The government did not guarantee the safety of the bank? though the negroes were generally made to believe that :t had , done so?nor did it take the proper precautions to secure honest management. As a consequence, a number of the trustees, who were also imp'icated in many other financial irregularities, were enabled to take complete control of the bank, and manage it to suit their own t interests. During tlie nine years or tne ; bank's existence, it handled no le-s than J $56,000,000 of deposits. Tiien it suspended payment, and a committee of j Congress was appointed to invvestgate matters. It found that the bank had been scandalously mismanaged, its char- j ter regulations ignored, at d its funds < dissipated by loaning on inadequate se- 1 curity. By law, the investments of the j bank were confined to government se- i curities, but this law was ignored, and j the funds used to aid the wild-cat schemes of the "ring" and their friends. Unimproved real e tate, unsalable stocks (such as that of tho Maryland Freestone \ Mining and Manufacturing Company, alias the ".-'eneca Stone Company"), and , personal notes, were among the assets of i the bank. Deficits and embezzlements * at the branch bau'ss also produced many J losses. The unsecured debts owed by l the bank to depositors July 13, 1874, c amounted to $2,900,000. Tne asset*, j which realized more than was expected, yielded nearly $1,700,000. Dividend's have been paid at various times, but ( many 6mall depositors, through '.gnor- 3 ance and despair, forfeited their divi- : dends by not calling for them. In all i 77,000 dividends,amounting to $112,000, j were thus forfeited. The cost of "wind- < ingup" this bank was $175,000. For i some years three bank commissioners were employed at a salary of $:i,000 ( each. But in February. 1881, theafTairs / - - - n J a. 1 Of tne Ijatl.K were ail tunicu uvcr iu tuic C Comptroller of the currency, at a gre?!.t ] saving of expenses. ' Beware of Draughts. ! This is the time of year for colds, neuralgia, rheumatism, pneumonia, and | kindred complaints. A little draught may produce either. A Spanish proverb runs as follows: , If cold winds rea h you through a hole, 1 Go make your will and mind your soul. 1 As the greatest pa!n-c'.ire. St Jacobs Cil is * recommended bypubliemen of America and other countries. Hon. Villa Flint, Life Senalor o' t!:o Dominion Parliament, Canada. * found it to act like a charm. Among the remarkable woods of South Af- l< rka is sneesewood (Pteroxylon utile;, which u in durability is said to surpass even lignum- i rit;e, producing machine bearings which havo j. been know n to outlast those of both brats and iron. Ex-Mayor Latrobe, Baltimore, Md., says th? t best cough medicine is Red Star Cough Cure, i Dr. Sa nuel K. Cox, D. D., of Washington, D. 2., after a careful analyst's, pronounced it purely v.ge'able, and most excellent for hroat troubles. Price, twenty-live cents a 8 bottle. " The slaughter of lobsters at Prince Edward island i* 8 >niethii g astounding. Tnere wens sxpoit'd 1 li'* past si-iison !t 1,00.1 cases, mostly ii> Unrope. which involved the killing of U'i.OOO, I )00 looatcr?. A Terrible Fire. What a thrill of terror ]>ass's over m when ive mi I the i i curd of s 'ine fearful devastator! by fire, and yet it s a fa-t that thousands ire daily being coioumed by tlu- inward the of 1 'ever, catiscd ly consump'icn of the lungs, ivhich could beMib.iued by Dr. P erce's "Hold- T m Medical Discovery." ?< The Duke of Sutherland owns land In this; jountry aggregating. it is said, 4-5.U00 acres. .. Everybody is enquiring for Hood's Calendar T 'or lfc'bT, because it is one of the mostat'ract- ? ve bits of coloring which lithogiaj lrc art has iver produced. It is a beautiful thing, the 'hiId's head being a ple'is^ng study, which exjlains why so many applications are being nade at the drunrsists for them. They can be >btained bv sending ten cents in stamps to 2.1. Hood Lowell. Ma^s. Vvunvnnnv wmenjoys reading a flrat-clas? Family Story Paper should subscribe for Thb ^nicAfio Ledgek. it is the only $:t paper in hj United States which is sold for 81.50. Sample copy free. Send for one. Address The Chicago Lkdoek,Chicago, 111. 'Royal Glue' mends anything! Broken Chi. ja. Glass, Wood. Free Vials at Drugs & Grc INJUSTICE CORRECTED. Convincing Verlflcntlon of Widocut Fabllo (Statements. TO THE RKABIRS OT THIS PAPSR. In common with many publishers and editors, we nave been accustomed to look upon certain statements which we bave seen in our columns as merely adroit advertising. Consequently we feel justified in taking the liberty of printing a few points from a private letter recently received from one of our largest patrons, as a sort of confession of faith to our readers. We quote: "We have convinced ourselves that by telling what we know to be true, we have pro duced at last a permanent conviction in the public mind. Seven years ago we stated what the national disease of this country was, and that it was rapidly increasing. Three years ago we stated that a marked, check had been given it "Tiie statistics of one pf. the largest life inturance companies of this country shows that in 1883 and 1884, the mortality from kidney disorders did not increase over the previous ?ears; other companies stated the same thing. f. i a tiAf nraonmnftiAna no f a nlo im r> r * / J * f i *V Mm UVV lUi UO kV l/l ?M>k? I for checking these ravages. "Seven years ago we stated that the condi- \ tion of the kidneys was the key to the condi- i tion of health; within the past five yeai-s all | careful life insurance companies have con- j ceded the truth of this statement, for, whereas, ten years ago, chemical Analysis to deter- j mine the condition of the kidneys'was not required, to-day millions of dollars in risks j are refused, because chemical examination ! discovers unsuspected diseases of the kidneys. "Seven years ago we stated that the ravages of Bright's Disease were insignificant compared with other unsuspected disorder* of the kidneyBof many misleading names; that ninety-three per cent of human ailments are attributable to deranged kidneys, which fills the blood with uric acid, or kidney poison, which causes these many fatal diseases. X "The uric acid, or kidney poison, Is the real cause of the majority of cases of paralysis, apoplexy, heart disease, convulsions, pneumonia, consumption, and insaulty; over half the victims of consumption are first the victims of diseased kidneys. "When the recent death of an honored exofflcial of the United States was announced, his physician said that although he was suffering from Bright's Disease, that was nnt the cause of death He was not frank enough to admit that the apoplexy which overtook him in his bed, was the fatal effect of the kidney poison of the blood, which had oaten away the substance of the arteries and brain; nor was Logan's physician honest enough to state that his fatal rheumatism was caused by kidney acid in the blood. "If the doctors would state in official reports the originaI cause of death, the people of this country would be alarmed, yea, nearly panic stricken, at the fearful mortality from kidney disorders." The writers of the abore letter give these facts to the public simply to justify the claims that Utey have made, that "if the kidneys and liver are kept in a healthy condition by the use of Warner's safe cure, which hundreds of thousands have proved to be a specific, when all other remedies failed, and that hat received tha endorsement of the highest medical talent in Europe, Australasia and America, many a life would be pro* longed and the happinesi of the people preserved. It is successful with so many different diseases because It and it alone, can remore the uric acid from the blood through the kidneys." Our readers are familiar with the preparation named. Commendation thereof has often ap peared in our columns. We believe it to be one of the best, if nol the best ever manufactured. We know the proprietors are men of character and influence. We are certain they have awakened a wide-spread interest in the public mind concerning the importance of the kidueya We believe with them that they are the key to health, and that for their restoration from disease and maintenance in health, there is nothing equal to this great remedy. The proprietors say thiy "donot glory in this un versa] prevalence of disease, but having: started out with the purpose of spreading the merits of Warner's safe cure before the world, because it cured our tenior proprietor, who was given up by doctors as incurable, we feel it our duty to state the facts and leave the public to its own infereocea. We point to our claims, and to the.r public and unit ersal verification with pride, and if the public does not believe what we aay, we tell them to ask their friends and neighbors what they think about our preparations." An stated above, we most cordially com men acne perusal or wis correspondence oj our readers, believiug that in ao doing w? lira 1 ulftlling a simple public obligation. Aboct 20,010 people are annually destroye In Indiaby animals. A New Way to Pur Old Debts. Shakespeare tells how this can bo accomplished in one of his immortal plays; but debts :o rat ure must be paid on demand unlessdays )f grace i>e obtained through ihe use of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." It is not a "cure-all." but invaluable I or sore throat, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, consumption,and ill diseases of the pulmonary and other orrans. caused by scrofula or ''bad blood." Scrofulou ulcers, swell ngs and tumors are :ured by its wonderful alterative action. By iruggiits. One hundred tons of limberger cheese were manufactured in Marine City, Mich., last rear. Dr. Pierce's "Favorito Proscription" is a < nost powerful restorative tonic, and combines ,he most valuable nervine properties; espeiial'y aaapted to'the wants of debiliaedlalies suffering from weak hack, inward fever, I rongestion inflammation, or ulceration, or ( !rom nervousness or neuralgic pains. By irug gists. New York City drinks 6,000,000 birrels of :ieer every year, at a cost of $.'?,400,1'00. ( A Fortune for You. I All is new; capital not needed: you are 1 ;tarted free. Both sexes; all ages, wherever , >ou live you should at once write to Hallett & ?o., Portland. Maine; they will send you free, ull information about work that you can do ind live at home, earning thereby from $5 to !25 nnd upwards daily, from the llrst start. have made over gfiO in a day, The b^st ihance ever known by working people- Now s th? time- delay not. If you have a Cold, Cough, (dry-hacking) >oup. Cankered-throat, Catarrh Dropping < lausingcough-Dr.Kilmcr's Indian Cough Cure . Comumptiom Oil) will relieve instantly?heals tnd cures. Price 50c. and $1. [f afflicted with sore eyes use I)r. Isasc Thomnon'sEye-watjer. Druggists soil at2-*>c. per bottle J No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption j 2ures where other roinedies fail. 25c. i Get Hood's! If yon hare made up your mind to buy nood'i Sar uparllU do not be Indaced to take any other, lood's Sarsaparllla Is a peculiar medicine, poesessor, by virtue of lta peculiar combination, proportion und preparation, curative power superior to any ither article of the Und before the people. Be sure o get Hood's. <1 "I ha Ibsen taking Haod's Saraiapartlla for dystepsla, and In one (tore where I tried to buy a bottle ' be clerk tried to Induce me to buy their own In- ^ tead of Hood's; ho told me their'* would laal 1 onger; that I might take It on ten days' trial; that 1 r I did not like It I need not ray anything, etc. But told blm 1 knew what Hood'a Sarsapjillla was, I ] * - _??V ?- t , I BO LUeD u, It agroou muimc,! "Hi iniimv J ifled with Hood's Saraaparllla, and did not ? ant any ther. I am alwayi glad to ipeak a good word for hit excellent medicine."?Has. Ella a. Gorr, <1 'errace Street, Boiton, Ma s. Hood's Sarsaparilla i Old by all drngglfta. $1; *lx for $3. Prepared only . y C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Maia. : ( (00 Doses One Dollar | |j COCKLE'S :: ANTI-BILIOUS I PILLS," ?HE QBE AT EN GLISH EEMEDY f or Llrer. Pile, Indigestion, etc. Free from Mer- I jry: contains only Puri> Vegetable Ingr-dlonu. tout: C. N. G'lilTTENTON, Now York. i I riUTCn Jmmediately, 100 .Sulcatum.^Goo-I J rMV?li-u i'av. timiii i? itc. auurrss n. j . i KEOIAX ('(). Nurserymen. Hrlghton. N.Y. * Why did th of this country use over th Procter & Gamble's Lenox S Buy a cake of Lenox and you L Something thai will Interest the Afflicted. {From the Weekly Record, Dundee, X. V.) There are many people in this country who are suttering untoia agony irom me ravages of diseases, who have been medicated until, the very sound of the word "medicine'1 sends a thrill of horror through their sensitivn organism, and yet they are still looking? looking for something that will prove a benefit to their shattered constitution and restoreto tfcem their health. To this class of sufferers the Record, without solicitation, desires to say a few words, not with the intent to advertise a man who to-day is doing more for this class of sufferers than i>en can describe, but because we know, notonly from personal experience, but from the experience of others, that what we are about to say in regard to Dr. Kilmer, of Binghamton, N. Y., and his Herbal Remedies arc facts, and it is a pleasure to let the sufferer Know that there is a Medk-ine that has done, and is still doing so much lasting benefit to the afflicted. Dr. Kilmer has been represented in the advertising columns of the Record for over two years, and during that period we hove received many communications asking if his Remedies were as represented, and have always felt that we could safely recommend them. Dr. Kilmer is one of the best-read Physicians of the present day. He probably has the largest practice and examines and treats personally more patients at his large and fully equipped oflice in Binghamton yearly, than any other physician in the country. These Herbal Remedies which he sends out are prepared and prescribed by him in his own private practice. Their component parts are carefully selected from Nature's great labcratory, and are compounded in a scientific manner so as to be especially adapted to the different forms of diseases for which they are us?d. Th?y are the result of years of bard, patient study of the science of medicine. There seems to be at the present time a tendency toward a great many Kidney, Liver and Bladder troubles with the people of th's couutry, and we wish to speak more particularly about Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. We will say on the outset, we are not writing sensational "gush" for l)r. Kilmer, but knowing personally as we do, of many important cures wrought from the use of this medicine, we believe it to be our duty to theafflicted to encourage them to avail themselves of the use of this valuable Remedy. We know a Mr. Chas. E. Roe, of Unionville, Steuben Co., N. Y. who had Bright's disease, and was told by the best Physicians of Hornellsville. N. V., that there was no hope for him, who was prevailed upon by a mend to try Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Kidnev Cure. He did so, without the least idea or being benefited, but the result was most gratifying to himself and family, for he was cured. Saved from death by tbat dreadful disease. Another case, that of Russell Sandford, of Wayne, Steuben Co., who had a terrible bowel difficulty which i would not vield to the medical skill of good ! doctors, who, at our own solicitation, tried Swamp-Root, and he told us after using several bottles his trouble was removed, al- , though he had no control over his bowels for a year previous to using the medicine and had been told tbat he would never be any better, and that his earthly career was limited. Our druggists here in Dundee tell us they have sold hundreds of bottles of this medicine and in no instance Vyn-rra fliAtr flvnr henrr? Aiicrhf. hllfc nrni<A from the persons using it We might mention scores of similar coses that, to our own personal knowledge, have been helped out of serious trouble by using S via nip-Root. We hope it will help some one, and we have no fears of the result of a trial, by any one who is suffering with a Kidney, Liver or Bladder trouble. "It is worth its weight in gold." IV. W. West coll, Editor. t-# # # #~ LYOIA E. PINKHAM'S l/EGETABLE ? n V ? COMPOUND OFF EBB 'I'M ri SUREST REMEDY TOB THE PAINFUL ILLS AND DISORDERS SUFFERED BY WOMEN EVERYWHERE. It relieves pain, promotes a regular and healthy recurrence of periods and is a great help to young (iris and to women past maturity. It strengthen* the back and the pelric organs, bringing relief and comfort to tired women wlio stand all day iu home, shop and factory. Lencorrhoea, Inflammation, Ulceration and Dls placements t>'l the Utem? have been cured by It, as women everywhere gratefully testify, licgular physicians often prescribe it. >Sold by all Druggists, Frice$1.00. Mrs. Plnkham's "Guide to Health" mailed to any lady sending stamp to th? Laboratory, Lynn, Mass. NUTS WEEKS A CRIPPLE TFifA Bheumaiitm, and Twenty Yeart a Sufferer irit A Neuralgia, Cured by Dr. Pardee? ? Remedy. RocnEflTEB, N. Y., May 25,1886. Gknts: I would like to open my heart to show you my feelings of gratitude which I am unable to express in wonls as I desire, for the great benefit I hare received from your remedy. I have for twenty years been a constant sufferer with neuralgia, and in March I had a very severe attack of rheumatism in my side ! and limbs. I was so badly off that I feared I should lose the use of my limbs, but thanks to "Dr. Pardee's Remedy," I am now entirely cured of both rheumatism and neuralgia ! Hid am better in every respect than I have ] been for years. I recommend your medi- 1 cino to every one. \ I am most respectfully yours, j Mrs. J. C. SWEENY 104Savannah Street ' Eheumatio Gout Cored. J Buffalo, May 28, 1886. Gents:?Since 18721 have been troubled with rheumatic gout in my feet and limbs, part of the time so badly that I was unable to walk. Each year found me a little worse than the preceding, although I doctored continually, but until I used "Dr. Pardee's Remedy" I found no relief. I have taken this for several months and t has cured me. I am not only free from pain and soreness, but in better health than I have been for years. I consider pour rheumatic remedy invaluabl.e I am, pour* truly, H. H. WALKER, 893 Fourteenth Street James Carey, of 180 Pinnacle avenue, Rochester, had inflammatory rheumatism *nd for five weeks was unable to walk or aibve without assistance, lie used "Dr. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy" and is now is well as ever. Ho says he has had his feet wet and been exposed to all kinds of weather, but feels no symptoms of rheunatism. Ask your druggist for Dr. Pardee's Remedy, and take no other. Price, $1 I jer bottle: six bottles. $5. . 4 Pardee Mcdicine Co.. Rochester. N. Y. DR. HAIR'S ASTHMA r% g |Q p Has ab.-olutely cured tend orthi u * nil wW ? muhIh. The only Asthma Cure and _ if- 1?? Tr.'atni' nt known to the medical _ orld that will, uositlvely. permiim-ntlycur.! Axrli- E in ami liny Fever. 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Treatment sent on tria U IrlUm HUJIAMC KK.UKDY < o , l.afayette, In j ti f f v s~\. ^ le vv uiiicn ^ ?>/??(?? million cakes of J oap in 1886 ? * I will soon understand why. - f a sate 1Rpmp(\v w \T v''7^| is \t\aX vih\cx\ coAaVws ffo Op/am Jf& /ULEK'5? s VUMG ?3?/ Balsam "4." t?r C0U5, 2k, (roup Yt \S Y$C\OW\ Ex^c\ovcrt\\ t\jTTtf<\y VT\ IWftYVLRS 4&CX vmvwA \\a scv\^ , S3V3:X %^4\( f?1 \q\ CVMwv dWDRVJGGViTS se\\\v C-il?i houk?HU ?ivntw ww i ymvilC* NTS U-fl OAKLAWN Th? Great Nursery of PERCHERONHORSES. S00 to 400 IKIPOBTED UWCALtT from France, all recorded with extended pedfgrree* in tlM Percheron Stud Boolti. The Pcrcheron I?the only drafl breed of France )K??e?*lng a ?tud book tint haa tM tupport *nd endomement of the French Gorernmanfc Bend for 120-pago Catalogue, Illustration* by Hm *?* ? M. W. DUNHAM, Wayne, DuPage Co0. Illinois* ?m? UNRIVALED ORGANS On the F.ASY PA YiHFNT ?y?H?in? from 93.23 per mouth ut?. 100 *tjrle?. tii to t*H Sc-nd for Catalogue with full particular*, mailed free. UPRIGHT PIANOS. LOHRWUtVCU UU tuo UC ? Hiriiivu VI w similar terms. Secul for descriptive Catalogue. MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN ANO PIANO COL Boston, New York, Chicago. Percheron / Horses. / lAiKe and compUt* / AUl^B stock of Imported ittlf lion* anil mama, of all a***. Over 13 prirea I ^^^Ej^^^Hfl^^^H.iiviirded my horses la 1 Tour year*. All staK \ lionsKuarunteedbre?4> cth. i lood stock \ recorded Willi pedigree V In i'ervhfrou stud >. B^r book*. 1 guarantee to jirll flr?t<T*? stock a* low or lower limn any Importer In the U. 8. Station Kn*lin>re. on Souther* Central 11 R. JOHN W. A KIN. 1?. U. Box 36. Sciplo N. One Agent (Merchant only) wanted in every tow u foe Illke your "TanclU's Punrli" clgara very nmck, and wish to have the exclusive sale in tills and will do all 1 can to push them. 1 Ix-lleve In advertising. and am takinx pains to distribute the circulars where they will do tii? most govd. C. V. Elliott. Manslield, Pa. Address R.. VV. TAX8ILL & C'0.> C'h I cat*. Marvellous Memory DISCOVERY. WhoUyunllke Artificial Systems-Cure of Mind Wt? derins?Any book learned In one reading. Heavy r?> ductlon? for postal cIumw. prospectus, wiu> opi?loi. i of Mr. Proctob, the Astronomer, Hon*. W. W. Astok, J cd ah P. Bcnjajux, Wrs, lliiioft, Wood and othjrs, lent post free, by PROF. LOISETTE, 337 Fifth Avenue, \tw York. DR. KILMER'S Stop that Cold, Cough, l LIW L R * and Tickling In the Throat Arrest that Catarrh,11 ronchitist or Asthma. This wnlVB Remedy relieves Quickly, HiUBB Cnres permanently. It IltlHtn'HijlhB prerents Decline, M^t-Uwetti AAAAAUkAiUA and death from CouunptioB. 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Virtues of I hope, burgundy pitch and hemlock oomUacd. The best, 25c., 6 tor <1.00 of dealers. Mailed free. I Beaton, Mass. Hop Plaster.| MHHHSBI9IIS!! Asthma cured:! German Aathmn Care ?er?r failt to (irrl inmtdtuf rthtf In lh? wont cimi, iniurei coa-H fortable iletp: tffteu cure* "her# all otb?r< fall. J trial convinces Ikt mat iktylical. Prire 50 eta. and B l.OO, of Droc(l>li or by mail. Simple tl?J\K forH lump. UK. K. KCHIrFM AN. ?U I'aul. Mlnn.g Plso's Remedy for Catarrh Is the M Best, Easiest to Use, sod Cheapest. M Also good for Cold In the Head, H ' Headacne, Hay Fever, Ac. 60 cent*. H|| UUfE WANT YOU! or woraaif^neediag WJI profitable employment to represent ua in every county. Salary $75 per month and expense*, or a irpro commission on sales if preferred, uoodu rt?pl?. Iverv one linvs. Outfit :ind particulars Kfer. ST AN DAK I) SD.VKItUAHK CO.. HOSTOS. XASX FRAZERAfk? 1EST IN TIIF WORLD 13? BB E H W C 2 If" Get the Genuine. Sold Evory where. 3ARDENSEEDS SSSfRS rniH-is Itrill. Hempstead, Lonu Isi.tsn. X. Y. 3PIU M H A BIT trri'JXi pain or self-denial. Pay when cured. Ilunilsuma imok five. PR- J.Wkatiikrby, Kansas City. Mt> CHI CALVES. POI LTRY. FIXF. BI TCML TKU. A ton a day wanted at the Walt. i.ont Market. UIk profit to shipper*. For imtrue >i>^ jiddres;. SMI I H. >5 l-a&l Ave.. fcroi lc.\ n, N.JY ip ioScSh dny. Samples worth $l.5ii FREE Lines not. under the horse's feet Addreu WW llK.-WSTKR S bArKl V KK1N liOl.DKR, Holly AllCO IIaiw'm Dili* Great English Gout and lldl! S llllSa Rheumatic Remedy. '?vi' ?qv. S).?><> | romiilt 50 rt*. kfllllBA and 'Morphine Ilnbit cured in IS I HI 11 HI toJUdays. Hefcrto luwpatients cured 91 III III lnall part-. Dr. Marsh,guin y. Mick IOW to J ake Money on real est at ; sure thine; itic pr'*flts. A M res< K. P. DEAN. Sioux city. Ji. k to Soldiers4 Heirs. SeiKlstam* 'AH0IAMQ for circuliiro. COL. I.. Bl.VGvllwlVllw HAM, Att'y. Washington, UO <rr . .